Publications
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Biographie und Bildungskultur
(2012)
What role did biographies play for the intelligentsia of the 2nd century AD and what literary forms were used by contemporary authors in their personal portrayals? These two questions have led to this cross-genre investigation ...
Himmelwärts / Das unbekannte Leben / Mit dem Kopf durch die Wand
(2020)
This volume presents two lesser-known plays from Horváth’s middle creative period – the tragicomedy Skyward, which he titled a “fairy tale,” and the comedy Head On. The volume reconstructs the plays’ writing process. ...
Bon and Naxi Manuscripts
(2023)
This collective volume offers an insight into the Bon and Naxi manuscript cultures and their possible interconnections. This is the first primarily object-based study to deal with Bon and Naxi cultural history, book ...
New Perspectives in Global Latin
(2025)
The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, the conference ...
Die Vergangenheitstempora im Alemannischen Deutschlands
(2022)
In this volume, corpus-linguistic methods and spontaneous language data have been utilized to prove that the tense forms preterite and pluperfect have reestablished themselves in German Alemannic. The reason for this is ...
Dinámicas lingüísticas de las situaciones de contacto
(2021)
The volume offers in-depth analyses of contact situations between Spanish and other languages, showing how language variation and change are part of the complex linguistic dynamics that characterize contact areas. Aimed ...
Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra
(2020)
Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State is a research initiative hosted by the British Museum and the British Library in London. Moving beyond geographical, chronological, disciplinary and historiographical ...
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads
(2025)
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or –expressed differently– to determine how these languages apprehend surprise and related notions as linguistic ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2012)
Of the 218 letters, 126 belong to correspondence with the Imperial Count Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel, a dedicated patron of the supporters of Christian Wolff and the head of the Berlin chapter of the Society of Alethophiles. ...
Encountering Others, Understanding Ourselves in Medieval and Early Modern Thought
(2022)
How did medieval and early modern religious traditions deal with otherness? Were the different and the divergent systematically rejected? How did these traditions pave the way for the tolerant and respectful views we ...
Latin America’s Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series
(2024)
This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the historical culture of Latin American society embodied in telenovelas and series from the 1960s to the present. Bringing together regional case studies on the representation of ...
Diskursive Verfestigungen
(2018)
The concept of frozenness has helped to shape recent lexicographic and phraseological research. The essays in this volume form a part of this current trend and examine discursive aspects of the problematics of frozenness ...
Infrastructure Aesthetics
(2024)
In recent years, more artists have been integrating institutions, funding structures, critics, and distribution circuits into the works themselves, putting pressure on the long-standing analytical division in art studies ...
Ernst Papanek and Jewish Refugee Children
(2021)
Ernst Papanek (1900-1973) was an Austrian-born Viennese reform pedagogue who realized already in the 1930s that unaccompanied, traumatized young refugees were self-directed. He organized "Kindertransporte" for about 1,600 ...
Commentary on Aristotle, ›Nicomachean Ethics‹
(2022)
This volume includes the first critical edition of George Pachymeres’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. An English translation of the Byzantine text and an extensive introduction on philosophical and philological ...
The Unity of Plutarch's Work
(2008)
The contributions to this volume inquire into many important issues of Plutarchean scholarship: the conditions under which Plutarch`s writings were split into two distinct corpora, his methods of work and the various ...
Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory
(2021)
How can it be, that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day? (K. Valentin). Information of the past has to be organised, arranged and selected. The process of selection must be seen as the fundamental ...
The Science-Media Interface
(2023)
The publication and distribution of scientific results is of major importance for the functioning of an information society and the tackling of the complex challenges the world faces today. It is not only scholars who rely ...
Spätantike Chroniken im Fluss der Zeit
(2025)
One change in late antiquity was the emergence of a trend toward a minor historiography in the form of lists and chronicles that were regularly edited and continued in a decentralized manner. This study gives a historical ...
Das Imperium Romanum und seine Gegenwelten
(2012)
Ammianus is regarded as the greatest historian of late antiquity. Yet his geographic and ethnographic digressions were long underestimated as examples offeigned eruditionand as undue interruptions to the historical narrative. ...
Innovations and challenges of the energy transition in smart city districts
(2024)
As living, economic and cultural spaces, cities require a sustainable energy system and must be designed to be highly energy efficient. The book provides a framework for practitioners and scientists on how the energy ...
Krankheit und lyrische Selbstsorge
(2024)
Das Buch widmet sich der Frage, weshalb Krankheitserfahrungen in der frühneuzeitlichen Lyrik zwischen 1490 und 1720 eine beispiellose Prominenz entfalten. Die Basis der Untersuchung bilden Texte bekannter und weniger ...
Chapter Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century in Aragon: Reassessing a Panorama of Fragmentary Sources
(2020)
Fragments of music manuscripts are some of the commonest finds inside bindings of later volumes, or unlabeled boxes tucked away in libraries and archives. Their surviving radically shaped our modern understanding of early ...
Differential Object Marking in Romance
(2021)
After a “first wave” of traditional studies on prepositional accusatives and a “second wave” exploring the typological dimensions of Differential Object Marking in Bossong’s footsteps, a new line of research is currently ...
Religiöse Individualisierung in historischer Perspektive
(2020)
This volume provides access to the working and results of six years of research on religious individualisation. It demonstrates the independence of individualisation and modernisation. It has proved that religion is a motor ...
Bildung und Briefe im 6. Jahrhundert
(2011)
Ennodius lived during the reign of the Ostrogothic King Theoderic. When he wrote his various works he was deacon in Milan, later becoming Bishop of Pavia. This study is an introduction to his life and works, and reveals ...
Der Witwer. Die Gefährtin
(2023)
Der Witwer. Die Gefährtin erscheint als 14. Band der – von Konstanze Fliedl herausgegebenen – historisch-kritischen Ausgabe von Arthur Schnitzlers Frühwerk. Ein Witwer erfährt aus Briefen vom Betrug seiner verstorbenen ...
Atem / Breath
(2021)
The anthology explores breath from the perspective of the arts and humanities, as well as experimental scientific and design practices. Focus is on the period from 1900 to the present day – an era during in which air has ...
Praxishandbuch Bibliotheksmanagement
(2024)
From the point of view of library practice, the Practical Handbook on Library Management offers an up-to-date assessment of the current situation and an overview of all aspects of the management of academic libraries in ...
The Reparations Controversy
(2011-08-29)
This book about the reparations issue ("shilumim" in Hebrew) brings together selected protocols of all debates held regarding conducting negotiations with Germany. This is the first book documenting confidential protocols ...
Gleichzeitigkeit in der Interaktion
(2022)
By taking a conversation-analytical approach, this study uses mobile eye tracking and audiovisual recordings of theater rehearsals to examine how people who are interacting with each other simultaneously coordinate relevant ...
The Enemy in Contemporary Film (Volume 12)
(2018)
While filmic representations of ‘enemies’ are legion, film studies have so far neglected the way in which filmic mediations of enemy images have contributed to shaping cultural memories. The present volume investigates ...
Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age
(2020)
Libraries, archives and museums have traditionally been a part of the public sphere's infrastructure. They have been so by providing public access to culture and knowledge, by being agents for enlightenment and by being ...
Living Together
(2025)
The loss of urban biodiversity pushes us to rethink architecture. Drawing on ecomfenimist theories, "Better Together" challenges established practices of progress and permanence, offering new ways and tools to accommodate ...
Concilium Universale Ephesenum
(2024)
The Council of Ephesus (431) was summoned to clarify whether describing Mary, the mother of Jesus, as the "God-bearer" could be reconciled with the true faith. Its history has been documented in numerous records. This ...
Universal Singular
(2022)
Critical introduction to the planning and design of public space. The design of public spaces is a reflection of their time. In our globalised world of images and experiences, however, the striving for uniqueness tends ...
The Position of Roman Slaves
(2023)
Slavery takes many forms. This was also true in Roman antiquity, even though modern scholarship on Roman slavery paints the picture of a very homogenous institution. This volume intends to correct that perception. In it, ...
Ausstellungskommunikation
(2021)
This study investigates museum exhibitions as multimodal communication offerings, of which texts and exhibits are just as much a part as exhibition architecture and design. It reconstructs the communicative potential of ...
Michel Foucault y la literatura
(2023)
This collected volume explores Foucault's literary thought, in light of the recent publication of unpublished works from his first period (1960s–1970s). It aims at establishing an archeology of the texts that Foucault ...
Metapher und Metonymie
(2015)
Empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics have become a central paradigm within linguistics. The series takes account of this fact and provides a platform for approaches within ...
Inszenierte Moderne
(2014)
Modern popular culture came to the world from the stage. Even before film and radio had established themselves, popular theater had developed into a commercial and boundary-crossing entertainment industry that reached a ...
Exploring Written Artefacts
(2021)
This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined ...
The Roots of Respect
(2017-04-10)
Despite the increasing concern for the issue of respect for persons displayed over the last decades by political philosophers, human-right thinkers, social and ethical theorists, a comprehensive treatment of the problem ...
Hispanos en el mundo
(2021)
Moving elsewhere is a moving thing. This volume sheds light on the interdependence of emotion and the migration of Hispanics in the world. The essays, written in Spanish and English and departing from various perspectives ...
Les portraits de Marie-Thérèse
(2021)
In the Austrian monarchy, Maria Theresa is the first and only woman of the Habsburg dynasty to rule and impose herself in a context of wars and reforms. In a situation of multiform crises (territorial dynasty, etc.), the ...
Wirklichkeit oder Konstruktion?
(2018)
Do we have true access to reality or are we merely surrounded by our own constructions of reality? This classic question has been taken up again with great urgency in the sciences and by the media. The volume reflects on ...
Open Heritage
(2023)
"Open Heritage" is a response to the urgent need for a more open definition of cultural heritage, of the parties involved in protecting and maintaining it, and of the relevant planning processes in order to ensure the ...
Image, Text, Stone
(2022)
This book explores the intermediality of image and text in Graeco-Roman sculpture. By studying a wide range of material, from grand sculpture to humble reliefs, scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds explore ...
Filtern
(2025)
Der Begriff der Kulturtechnik befindet sich aktuell in einem entscheidenden Wandlungsprozess: dem Wechsel vom Apparat zur Umgebung. Kulturtechniken lassen sich nicht länger in Relation zu bestimmten einzelnen Gegenständen ...
Inszenierte Keuschheit
(2024)
Die historische Aufarbeitung von sexuellem Missbrauch und Gewalt in der Frühen Neuzeit steht noch ganz am Anfang. Auf detaillierten Archivrecherchen beruhend, geht diese Studie Sexualdelikten im Jesuitenorden nach, die an ...
A Grammar of Yélî Dnye
(2022)
This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken offshore from Papua New Guinea, remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, it ...
Glaube, Wissenschaft, Sprache
(2022)
This publication provides a diachronic overview of the main tendencies in Protestant theological jargon and academic language from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries from a Germanist-linguistic perspective. Using ...
Terrorizing Images
(2020)
This book combines two focal points: trauma and ekphrasis. It responds to the recognition of how terrorizing images permeate the public sphere in connection with traumatic experiences and conflicts and emphasizes the ways ...
Narrative der Migration
(2021)
The cultural history of German migration society is still unwritten, even though, since the 1960s, numerous interactions and aesthetic negotiations have taken place in literature, film, and in societal debates and theories ...
Toscana bilingue (1260 ca.–1430 ca.)
(2021)
The contributions gathered in this volume discuss the complex topic of translating in medieval itay from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining the philological approach with a detailed social and cultural analysis. ...
Confucius and Cicero
(2020)
This book explores the relationships between ancient Roman and Confucian thought, paying particular attention to their relevance for the contemporary world. More than 10 scholars from all around the world offer thereby a ...
Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds
(2024)
The notion of apocalypse is an age-old concept which has gained renewed interest in popular and scholarly discourse. The book highlights the versatile explications of apocalypse today, demonstrating that apocalyptic ...
Paulus als Erzähler? Eine narratologische Perspektive auf die Paulusbriefe
(2020)
In recent Pauline research, the critical importance of implicit narratives for understanding the apostle’s Epistles gained importance. The study examines this in a critical analysis using narrative theory and text linguistics. ...
Überforderungseinwände in der Ethik
(2022)
Gibt es überzeugende Überforderungseinwände gegen anspruchsvolle moralische Auffassungen? In der vorliegenden Abhandlung werden Überforderungseinwände sorgfältig charakterisiert, systematisch eingeordnet und argumentativ ...
Thinking with the South
(2024)
This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came out of the Berlin-based "co2libri" networking initiative, with longstanding ...